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Studies on Self-Organization (So-so) is an ongoing study on the relation between images and time, image understood as phases of a genetic cycle that gives place to imagination.
What began as an audioviaul essay on image and time became an audiovisual creation and research project that approaches montage as part of the becoming of the image, understood, following Gilbert Simondon, as a reality that exceeds the visual and participates in processes of imagination and invention. In dialogue with Andrea Soto Calderón, the project considers the image as a reality capable of organizing itself temporally and participating in the production of the conditions through which it acquires meaning.
The work engages with images produced within scientific research on phenomena of self-organization, transposing into algorithmic montage systems principles that orient the organization of those phenomena. The research moves across scales ranging from the microscopic to the cosmological, while also considering the possibility of thinking about social self-organization, and asks whether these images can make sensible other modes of organization capable of recognizing their own agency and the effect of an alterity, starting from Enrique Dussel’s idea that no system is ever completely closed, an alterity that in this case is embodied by the performer.
So, through its own process of individuation and self-organization, the work became an audiovisual performance in which montage emerges through the unfolding of the performance and the experience it produces. Visual montage and analog sound synthesis enter into a relation of mutually induced individuation, a formulation borrowed from magnetic induction theory, in which transformations in each process induce transformations in the other while their temporal relation is constituted through performance. A first exercise in this form was presented atFestival Temporal, at Galeria MIRA in Porto, on 9 July 2026.
Initially developed from open visual archives, SOSO is currently continuing its research in collaboration with Chilean scientific institutions such as CATA and Núcleo Milenio SELFO, approaching the concrete processes that give rise to these images and allowing them to also inform the temporal organization of the work.
The first stage of the audiovisual work incorporates visual materials licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY and CC BY-SA). These licenses apply exclusively to the respective visual materials and do not extend to the sound composition or other original elements of the work.
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Sound composition "atta" © Nico Espinoza, all rights reserved.